Jane Crowther

London

Editor-in-Chief at Hollywood Authentic

EIC Hollywood Authentic. Author: Gatsby (out now) Silver Screens (06/11/25). Vice-Chair @londoncritics Film. Member @BAFTA @CriticsChoice. Lit rep @harryillers

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Articles

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING

1 day ago | hollywoodauthentic.com | Jane Crowther

Words by JANE CROWTHERIn case you missed the previous instalment, The Final Reckoning begins by ensuring viewers are on the right page with this adventure, kicking off a couple of months after the events of Tom Cruise’s 2023 summer blockbuster. Now Ethan Hunt’s (Cruise) hair is longer, his tech whiz Luther (Ving Rhames) is ill and the rogue AI threat, The Entity, has plunged the world into chaos.
SINNERS - Hollywood Authentic

4 weeks ago | hollywoodauthentic.com | Jane Crowther

Words by JANE CROWTHERWhen twins Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan via unobtrusive CGI sleight of hand) return to their Mississippi home after fighting in WW1 and then brawling in Chicago, they’ve seen some things. Having made some cash by disreputable means in the north, the brothers are gold-toothed, tailored and handy with guns and knives – set on opening their own juke joint in their old neighbourhood.
The glamour of Gatsby is still alive and well on Long Island

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jane Crowther

As F Scott Fitzgerald's novel reaches its centenary, we plot a course through a New York playground that's as glamorous today as ever it wasMost people would agree that 100 years is a long time. Our world has changed immeasurably in the last century, and the planet is very different now to what it was in 1925. And yet, even over the course of a century, some things do not change at all.
THE AMATEUR - Hollywood Authentic

1 month ago | hollywoodauthentic.com | Jane Crowther

Words by JANE CROWTHERCharlie Heller (Rami Malek) is a self-confessed CIA nerd and puzzle fan. A systems analyst and decoder who can unpick a photo to determine the location of the subject, access cameras across the world and save the life of a field agent via technology, he’s nevertheless a homebody who has never travelled overseas and is tinkering with a cessna plane in his barn but may never fly it.
From the jazz age to the Trump age: The Great Gatsby at 100

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Jane Crowther

It’s now considered a masterpiece, but when The Great Gatsby was published a century ago the response was mixed, with one critic writing: “I don’t even know whether it is fully intelligible to anyone who has not had glimpses of the kind of life it depicts.” Back then, this life – which Fitzgerald had been living – was a gilded world reserved for the rich and well connected.
DEATH OF A UNICORN

1 month ago | hollywoodauthentic.com | Jane Crowther

Words by JANE CROWTHERThe question of whether a mythical horse beast with a forehead protuberance shifts its mortal coil is answered fast in this debut satire from writer-director, Alex Scharfman. Within minutes of uptight attorney Elliot (Paul Rudd) and his emo teen daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) touching down in the Canadian wilderness, they have mowed down the titular equine in their hire car as they fractiously drive to the remote home of his obscenely rich, terminally-ill boss (Richard E.
THE WOMAN IN THE YARD

1 month ago | hollywoodauthentic.com | Jane Crowther

Words by JANE CROWTHERThe titular lady is a black-clad veiled figure who appears calmly sitting in her Victoriana outfit on the perimeter of a family farm on a sun-dappled day. That in itself may not be disquieting but it’s the start of a haunting film that deftly explores grief, motherhood, guilt and the interior darkness we all carry for much of its brisk run time. The woman (Okwui Okpokwasili) appears one day that seems suffocating for Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler).
THE ALTO KNIGHTS

1 month ago | hollywoodauthentic.com | Jane Crowther

Words by JANE CROWTHERRobert de Niro playing two mob bosses in a film scripted by Nicholas Pileggi of Goodfellas fame in a decades-spanning true tale of NY turf wars? Ba-da-bing! Barry Levinson’s elegant biopic ticks all the boxes for audiences craving a little Scorsese-adjacent drama filled with sharp suits, mobster mumblings and period detail.
BLACK BAG - Hollywood Authentic

2 months ago | hollywoodauthentic.com | Jane Crowther

Words by JANE CROWTHERGeorge and Kathryn Woodhouse ((Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett) are married British spies – intentionally childless, cool as cucumbers, impeccable dressers and would kill for each other. They live in a glamorous townhouse in London and conduct covert ‘black bag’ operations that take them away from each other on secret assignments. He is fastidious in grooming, cooking and methodology; she reverberates with intelligence and sensuality.
MICKEY 17 - Hollywood Authentic

2 months ago | hollywoodauthentic.com | Jane Crowther

Words by JANE CROWTHERMickey (Robert Pattinson) is a disposable worker, an expendable. Not just theoretically as so many of us feel while slogging in unfulfiling jobs at the knife’s edge of a dwindling industry or for corporations who insist we are replaceable. But literally. Self-described as a ‘meat-cicle’, Mickey gives his DNA to a tech corporation sending people to space in pursuit of new planets to mine in order that he can expire and be 3D printed back out repeatedly.